User talk:Theresa knott/archive13

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Welcome to my talk page. If you've come to complain, whine, moan, question my judgment, my intelligence, my sanity, or tell me off in anyway, that's fine. I'm a big girl who can take it.If you've come to chat, compliment me, have a laugh, or discuss articles that's even better.

Esperanza made less bureaucratic

Hello again, I have (unilatterly) taken away the 'assembly' idea, as per my reasons at that edit summary and per Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Charter. I have left the admin general, as some leadership is good. Now, all you have to do is be a member to establish consensus, the whole assembly idea is gone. Also, I have added an advisory committee, of four members, with limited power besides watching over the admin general and making sure he doesn't do anything stupid. Please look at the ammended charter, and I would love a comment. Redwolf24 (talk) 00:31, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

The last time I'm spamming you all with Esperanza stuff

Hello Theresa knott. As you may or may not know, there have been some troubles with Esperanza. So now, as a last ditch to save the community, please vote at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Reform on all neccisary polls. P.S. I'm very sorry for spamming you all with these messages, and this will be the last time. I recommend putting ESP on your watchlist. Cheers and please look at that, let's stop the civil war then. Redwolf24 (talk) 02:53, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Unacceptable deleting tactics

User:Ted Wilkes has repeatedly deleted paragraphs from talk and article pages. See [1], [2], [3], [4]. He even falsely claimed to have moved content from the Talk:Elvis Presley/Homosexuality page to the Talk:Elvis Presley/Sexuality page, but the content has been totally deleted. See [5].

There are similar deleting tactics by User:Wyss. See [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12].

DotSix case: New sockpuppet?

I believe User:Ehrlich might (I'm not sure) be a sockpuppet of injoined user Adrigo/DotSix (Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/DotSix). He has the same peculiar theses, is a very recent user who nevertheless knows wikipedia policies well and edits the same pages as the injoined user did. Are you the one I should ask IP check to? Thanks. Jules LT 18:13, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Recommended vote change re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DoYouDo

Hello, I recommend a change of vote to Merge and redirect to anonymous matching. That article will sum up the history, development, and current state of these systems. DoYouDo was one of the first, and holds the patent on the process; however, eCRUSH and some others that were already operating when the patent was registered in 1999 were apparently grandfathered in and thus are able to continue operating without being licensed by DoYouDo. 205.217.105.2 21:12, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Stevertigo arbitration

Sorry to bother you, but there is one key unresolved issue (finding of fact one way or the other) that is not currently being voted on in the proposed decision page. Please see User talk:Fred Bauder#Stevertigo arbitration: one key finding of fact is not resolved. -- Curps 16:59, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Huge blocks

I appreciate your effort in getting rid of skyring, but do you really think blocking all of bigpond is worth it? He's pretty easy to spot and revert, and I suspect that block is making a lot of australian wikiaddicts very unhappy right now. --fvw* 22:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

The blocks are only for 15mins though. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 22:10, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, but still... Oh well, 15 minutes of quiet is nice, and with your new block I think you've effectively blocked an entire continent, which is kind of nice for novelty-value. --fvw* 22:14, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

You are right. I won't do it again. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 22:17, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Please Help

Please help, please undo what DreamGuy reinserted in the Otherkin article, he does tihs without discussion, which cannot be allowed, and pursues a defamitory adgenda in the article, which is one of the main points of his arbitration. please remove what he inserted. i do not wish to get me into trouble, or to deal with him any more, so i ask you really nicely to make his defamitory adgenda come to an end...Gimmiet 04:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I won't remove the see also link, because I think it should be there. Also he didn't do it without discussion, the discussion is on the talk page. I don't know what you mean by "defamitory adgenda" :-( Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 06:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

I unblocked 71Demon, apparently he made that fourth revert while I was typing the warning. *facepalm* --Phroziac^(talk) 06:20, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

ArbCom elections

Hello, Theresa knott/archive13. In case you haven't noticed, I'm writing a special series on the upcoming 2005 ArbCom elections for The Wikipedia Signpost. In the October 17 issue, we will be profiling the current ArbCom members. Note that this should not be a platform for re-election; rather, it should serve as an insight into what you feel about the ArbCom, and your opinions of it are. Thus, I hope you don't mind answering a few questions. Many thanks!

1. Are up for re-election this year?
2. If so, do you plan to run for re-election?
3. How do you feel about serving on the ArbCom?
4. What do you think are the strengths of the ArbCom?
5. Weaknesses?
6. If you could change anything, what would you change? Why?
7. Do you regret accepting your position? Why or why not?
8. If you could say one thing to the current ArbCom candidates, what would you say, and why?
9. Do you think your job is easy? Hard? Explain.
10. Looking in retrospective, is there anything you would have done differently?
11. Do you feel that the ArbCom is appreciated by the community? If not, how do you think that could be changed?
12. What is the most frustrating thing about being on the ArbCom? Enjoyable?

I hope you didn't mind me bombarding with you with questions; by no means feel obligated to answer all (or any) of them. Thanks for serving Wikipedia, and for taking your time to help a Signpost reporter! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 14:07, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

1.No next year

2.NA

3.I feel proud to be trusted by the community.

4. I don't know, i'm too close to it to be able to judge.

5. Still to slow for most cases.

6. I'd make it less formal and less legalistic.

7. A bit. Most of my time on wikipedia used to be spend editing, drawing diagrams and socialing. Now much of my times is spending reading endless talk pages and trying to fathom out what to do about disruptive/nasty POV pushing nutcases. It's soul destroying. But someone's gotta do it.

8. You have no idea the amount of time this will suck up.

9. Ocassionally easy (some cases are straightforward but not many), but usually hard.

(more answes later) Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 15:23, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the responses so far! If you would like to add more to your answers, feel free to do so. However, in order to give me time to write for Monday's issue, I would appreciate it if you could have the rest of your answers by either Thurday or Friday. Many thanks! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 19:45, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank You on the Banning

• • Thank You Theresa, and thank you Phorziac for you apology. Too many people in todays world forget, little things like that mean alot. --71Demon 14:35, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Hello, Theresa. Do you still have this image file for Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word ? Someone has deleted it and it can't be restored. I tried. :-( Do you mind re-uploading it, please ? -- PFHLai 02:59, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Help

A year ago you helped my wife and I on keeping the Michael E. Berumen article when it came under attack. Now they want to delete it, again. Could you weigh in with your opinion on proposal for deletion? I feel railroaded on the whole thing. Thanks. icut4u 14:21, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

WP:RFAR/SV

Re: Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Stevertigo/Proposed_decision#Ommision_of_fact

I understand that some are quite busy and may have missed recent discussion and questions regarding my Arbcom matter. Ive taken the liberty of posting here to remedy any inadvertent oversight regarding my case. Sinreg, St|eve 22:22, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

The Signpost

Hello, Theresa Knott! I just wanted to deliver this week's issue of The Wikipedia Signpost, which features the current ArbCom, directly to your front door. :-) Also, if you wish to read your fellow Arbitrators' full and unabridged responses, you can find them here. Thanks again for all your help! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 21:19, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

-- A WikiThanks for you :-) Have a good day! --HappyCamper 01:00, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

You are welcome. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 01:01, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

ANI reverts

Hey, I looked up those IP's, last one being 203.51.32.209, they are 203.48.0.0/14 if you wanted to temp block the range.

inetnum: 203.48.0.0 - 203.51.255.255

netname: TELSTRAINTERNET3-AU

descr: Telstra Internet

descr: Locked Bag 5744

descr: Canberra

descr: ACT 2601

country: AU «»Who?¿?^meta 01:14, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

That's a massive block! I've been chastised for much smaller rangeblocks than this. I think reverting is the best way to go for now. It's bothersome but has little or no collateral damage. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 01:23, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I agree, I was thinking a 15 minute just to curb the vandalism, maybe make them think they can't edit anymore. Otherwise I wouldn't have suggested it, sorry I didn't specify earlier. «»Who?¿?^meta 01:29, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Some help for image needed

Hello. I came across an image of you at Image:Transit_diagram_angles.png as I want to use a german translated version of this image (de:Bild:Venuskonstellation.png) for a free book about the solar system (based on Wikipedia articles; books out of Wikipedia article collections are currently the next wiki evolution step in german language Wikipedia). However you did not provide a license but this was added by a third person, see [13]. As the German version also gives another license there is a bit confusion about the right license, so I would be happy if you can indicate the right free license for this image so that I can reuse it according to what you intended. Many thanks in advance, Arnomane 01:38, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

All my diagrams are dual licenced under the GFDL and CC atribution share alike. Feel free to ise it under whichever licence you want. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 01:43, 19 October 2005 (UTC)